Telephone To Heaven

The main reason Clare is an outsider is because she is “passing” as a Caucasian. The act of “passing” is a very interesting concept that can be quite troubling. “What is troubling about the concept of racial “passing” is that it necessitates placing people of mixed ancestry in one racial category over another” (Nisetich 2013). This is exactly what Clare is doing with her life, she is saying she’s part of a race that she really isn’t. She has even taken it as far as fooling her husband, John Bellew. They became a couple because he is a wealthy, white business man. On the other hand, John is an extremely racist man. This is shown from his comments when he had lunch with: Clare, Irene, and Gertrude. On this day, is when Clare realized she’s going to be in a lot of trouble when John finds out the

The article draws on evidence gathered from plantation owner’s personal writings, bondwomens accounts, relatives accounts and statistics to demonstrate the everyday events and repertoires that occurred in Antebellum plantations. Using plantations accounts such as William Ervin, Camp is able to give us an insight into the formation of the plantation and the spatial borders that limit slaves. Furthermore, plantation accounts from owners gives insight into the punishment that bondpeople receive. This essential knowledge provides an understanding into the conditions that bondpeople dealt with every day and the psychological mind set of plantation owners. Camp builds on these fundamental ideals by using primary accounts from enslaved people to bring an understanding in why truancy was an everyday occurrence. Specifically, Camp uses bondwomen’s accounts to understand the gender norms that led to different acts and rates of rebellion inconsistent with men. Camp focuses on the gender issue of women and the expectations laid by other slave members as described by Patience M. Avery. The last essential primary evidence that Camp uses to form her argument is through statistics of slave women which demonstrate the lack of women escaping to the north in specific states. However, some of her statistics have the potential to limit her argument as shown in describing incidents of truancy on plantation farms in South Carolina. These statistics occur in different years, 1828 and 1831 to show the rate of women committing truancy, however the differences in years could indicate that these rates could be an anomaly. Therefore, although Camp brings in useful and relative source to build a constructive argument there are areas which could limit the article. Camps overall uses vital primary sources builds on her contention

“The imposition of structural adjustment programs in the Third World since the 1970s has been characterized as a war against the poor, a process of [neo] recolonization” (Turner, 1994: 37). This statement is particularly applicable to the country of Jamaica. The island has been susceptible to a variety of neocolonial acts including the presence of multinational corporations, structural adjustment programs, and loan organizations that have sucked Jamaica’s economy dry. This neocolonial presence has devastated the population in more ways than one. It is apparent that neocolonialism has had and continues to have a large impact on society as a whole in Jamaica. This

During her shopping trip with her friend, Felise, Irene accidentaly met Jack Bellew. Irene considered warning Clare that Jack might aware of her racial status and possibly Clare’s too. However, Irene told nothing for she was worried that Clare’s divorce might encourage Irene’s husband, Brian, to leave her for Clare. Irene relationship with her husband was not good at that time, and she noted that Brian might like Clare more than friend. On one night, Clare accompanied Irene and Brian to Felise’s party which was held on a top of a building. Clare husband, Jack, suddenly came and shouted at Clare “You’re a nigger, a damned dirty nigger!, and tragically, the story ended with Clare’s death which she fell from an open window of the top of that

The life of a plantation mistress changed significantly once her husband left to join the Southern army. A majority of them stayed right on the land even if they were rich enough to move to a safer place. While there, the

Although Irene feels that there is "nothing sacrificial in Clare's idea of life, no allegiance beyond her own immediate desire," it is apparent that Clare's desire to return to her African American race is honest, even if the motives seem rather one-sided (Larsen 144). Irene considers Clare to be "selfish, cold and hard" (Larsen 144). Irene also feels that Clare does not have "even in the slightest artistic or sociological interest in the race that some members of other races displayed…[She] cared nothing of the race, she only belonged to it" (Larsen 182). This may be true, but it does not diminish Clare's own pain at having to deny her African American heritage, and her desire to return to it. Irene represents a portion of society who feel that people who pass must have a morally acceptable reason to return to their African American roots such as a desire to rebel against a white society that has forced them into the role of a white person. Just because Clare feels "no permanent allegiance to either the black or white worlds or any of the classic anguish of the tragic mulatto" does not mean that she is not a tragic mulatto (Washington 48). In her own way, "Clare Kendry belongs with that group of tragic mulattos…emerg[ing] as an individual, not as a stereotype" (Davis 98). Because she wants to return to her own race on her own terms illustrates her individuality in the face of the

African-American ladies played significant bolster parts amid the Colonial time frame by giving help to the volunteer army. Their help included parts, for example, moving into the "huge house" to bolster the slave owner’s significant other when he left to serve in the volunteer army, dealing with wounds, and working close by the men in building fortresses for security from both the Indians and the British.

Cotton Mather’s historical recount, “The Captivity of Hannah Dustan,” brings to light the pure American fantasy of the white woman’s captivity. Taken captive in 1675 by a group of Indians during King William’s War, Hannah eventually fought her way to freedom by killing her oppressors while they slept. She then fled with their scalps and received great congratulations from her friends and even a “a very generous token of favor” from the Governor of Maryland himself. In the American genre of captivity, the captive is almost always a conventional, innocent, white woman who, according to Mather, “stand[s] passively under the strokes of evil,

Response to “The Pleasures of Resistance,” “Between Slavery and Freedom,” “The Trials of Girlhood,” Months of Peril,” “The Children Sold,” “The New Peril,” and “The Loophole of Retreat.”

He tells the readers that he has been left behind, forgotten and abandoned to the point where he feels like he must announce his presence to the world and wishes others would acknowledge him. The friends Clare did have most likely didn’t care much for him being institutionalized, therefore causing him to speak of his friends in such a pessimistic manner. He then states that there was no one to help to ease his pain in the third and fourth lines of the first stanza: “I am the self-consumer of my woes, they rise and vanish in oblivious host,” he makes reference to his insanity in the phrase “oblivious host” which hints that he is usually unaware of the happenings occurring about him because of his mental health.

Clare seem to be good generous man, however he make it obvious that he really don’t support system of slavery but he has no choice because he just going with the flow of

In this text, readers are able to use New Historicism to connect the racism occurring during the era when the book was written, to the text to gain a deeper understanding. In this example, Vera Claythorne is one of ten guests occupying the mansion on Soldier's Island. Once in her room she begins examining an old nursery rhyme that is framed in her room:

Queen Nanny of the Windward Maroons, has been overlooked by historians, who limited their focus to only the male figures in Maroons History. Due to her being overlooked factual information is unclear and her history was handed down thorough folklore. However, amongst the Maroons themselves, Queen Nanny also known as Obeah Woman Nanny and Granny Nanny, is held in the highest honor. Back in the 17th to 18th century, Nanny was a leader of the Rebellious group of black people called Maroons (people living on mountaintops) due to their style of living in the hilly mountain tops from the Ashanti Tribe of West Africa, now called Ghana. She led the war between the Winward Maroon’s and The British in the First Maroon War. Though, not originally from Jamaican, but brought to Jamaica during the time of slavery, she never received her freedom legally until a treaty was reached between the Maroons and the British. Nanny became, known for her organized plans to keep and free the Maroons along with other tribal African from slavery. This led to the freedom of also most 1000 slaves remaining free during the time of slavery in history. During the Era, women are seen as second-class citizens and slaves having no say but Granny Nanny’s leadership skills empowered her to break many barriers and create a name for herself as studied in Organization Leadership.

The author wants the reader to visualize what is going on. Emile realizes that the conversation he was having earlier with Glynis husband, Albert, was a distraction so that he wouldn't realize what Glynis was actually after. Glynis wants her father's house all to herself and she has plans for tourists to visit. On the other hand, most of the people in Barbados want to avoid tourists coming, as the only thing they are good at is buying the beaches. In contrast between the Western beliefs in the Caribbean and African and Caribbean cultures there were many differences. For example, in chapter 19 the author states, “ Glynis has indeed given him the newspaper. He has seen the photograph of Corinne sitting with a Rastafari family in Tivoli Gardens. He admired her spunk, he said. He admitted he often felt guilty about his people's past in the islands, how they got rich on the backs of black people. How he got rich. He should do more himself. She was setting a good example for white people on the island.”(Nunez, 234). Corinne’s father indicates her ways of helping children was a kind-hearted

“Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?” (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk). This quotes exemplifies what patriarchy has done to our society. In the short story “The way up to Heaven,” the idea embedded in patriarchy is a force that Mr. Foster uses against his wife. Mr. Foster most certainly demonstrates patriarchy in the story with an extreme self entitlement to maintain dominance over Mrs. Foster. Firstly, he controls everything that his wife does. Secondly, he treats his wife like a child and does not care for her. Finally, Mr. Foster psychologically tortures his wife’s using her most terrifying fear against her.